Cork Prison officer hospitalised after contracting Covid-19

In Cork Prison, around 13 staff are out on Covid-19 leave, either having tested positive or as a close contact. File picture: Eddie O'Hare

An officer at Cork Prison has been hospitalised after contracting Covid-19, it has emerged.

He and a colleague tested positive at around the same time and contact-tracing has been carried out to try and ascertain how they contracted the virus.